World First MOTHER Solo By Rextroy - Protection Paladin

EDIT (10:55PM EDT): Ultimo Difensore has received a hard cap of 50% damage reduction, thus disabling the strat used for the kill documented on this post. For more hotfixes, check our September 17th hotfixes post.\r\rRextroy, a Protection Paladin, managed to conquer the first solo raid boss in Battle for Azeroth! With creative using of game mechanics, he was able to bring down M.A.D.R.E., the second boss of Uldir. You can watch the video below:\r\rNote: The video has no thumbnail but it is the correct one!\r\r\rHow Was It Done?\rRextroy managed this feat thanks to an oversight with the Protection Paladin talent Ultimo Difensore. This talent reduces the damage you take and increases the damage you deal by a small amount for every enemy close to you. However, although this talent has diminishing returns, it has no hard cap on how much damage reduction you can receive. So, you can deal a lot of damage and take severely reduced damage if you have a lot of enemies around you. He explains in detail on his video's description:\r\r\rIlvl 365\rRuna Vantus - Uldir\r(Including other consumables)\rAvanguardia Motivante (Azerite Trait)\r\rImportant talents:\rUltimo Difensore\rGiudizio del Crociato\r\rTactics:\rPreparations:\rYou might wonder were all these worms came from... Well they are from the amazing dungeon Maniero dei Crestabianca. \r\rYou might wonder "how could you possibly get those into Uldir?"\r\rFirst you need to get infected by the Camola Divoratrices in Waycrest on Heroic or Mythic difficulty. The Infestazione debuff causes worms to spawn, with a chance to be Parassitica on their own. You are able to bring the debuff outside of the dungeon, wherever you want!\rYou spawn 2 worms from the debuff, the chance to spawn an Parassitica is about 50%. With luck this chain will keep going until you able to stack up loads. However you might lose all the infectious ones and then you have to gather new ones.\r\rSecond thing, how to actually bring them to Uldir is by either having your HS set near the raid and slowly bring the debuff to the raid. Or having people summoning you there. Warlock is the best since it brings you directly inside, but using sum stone outside works too! \r\rThen you keep trying to stack up the worms into huge groups until you have enough to challenge the boss!\rBe careful not to have too many worms since it might cause a crash. However since the worms are silenced inside the boss encounter area, the chance of this happening is lower than at other locations \/ encounters. \r\rTactics for boss:\rThe boss itself aint too difficult after you prepared, however it is still a gear check and attention check. MOTHER got quite a lot of HP, so you need to maximize your efficiency to bring her down before the room is covered in flames (with enough adds it might be survivable however...)\r\rThe adds grant you loads of Giudizio and auto hits, Judgment deals lots of damage in BFA. Which is great for our DPS. Aswell as Ultimo Difensore boosting it by 95-100%.\rUse your Benedizione della Protezione Magica to survive inside the room when it is filled with flames for a bit longer, to push some additional damage.\r\rYou do not have to worry about most other mechanics, since they are survivable with Last Defender... However it is very important that you move the adds out of Assalto Sanitizzante, it actually KILLS your worms (very are for enemy NPCs to be able to kill eachother).\rGuess MOTHER is really good at.... sanitizing! \r\rSpecial thanks to everyone that assisted me in gathering up worms!\r\rEspecially Warlady and Heavensroar (that took awhile, didn't it!?)\r\rReckoning Bomb Parallels\rThis solo has similar parallels to one of (if not) the most famous solos that happened during WoW Vanilla, when a Paladin one-shot Sire Kazzak with a so-called Reckoning Bomb.\r\rReckoning was a Protection talent in Vanilla. When blocking an attack, your next auto-attack would strike an additional time, and there was no limit to how many "charges" of reckoning you could have. So, a Protection Paladin spent 2 hours collecting around 1800 Reckoning charges and use it to one-shot the World Boss. \r\rNote: The video has no thumbnail but it is the correct one!\r\r\rThe lag is very noticeable as the boss' health actually goes down in chunks as the game was attempting to process so many auto-attacks at once. Less than 24 hours after this, Reckoning was hotfixed to only store a maximum of 5 charges at any time.\r\rSince Ultimo Difensore was the entire reason this strat was even possible, it is very likely that the talent will also receive a hard cap on a future hotfix.

Commenti

Commento di Kaiteir

on 2018-09-17T13:53:26-05:00

Yup, gg that talent lol

Commento di Kallech

on 2018-09-17T13:54:18-05:00

Since Last Defender was the entire reason this strat was even possible, it is very likely that the talent will also receive a hard cap on a future hotfix.\r\rSeems very unlikely, since people were using a similar strat to solo Portal Keeper last tier. I'd more likely expect the Infested debuff to fall off outside of Waycrest Manor, if Blizz intends to address this at all, which also seems unlikely.

Commento di Azardea

on 2018-09-17T13:55:39-05:00

Well, thanks for getting the talent nerfed, I guess...?

Commento di SuperSnivy

on 2018-09-17T13:57:09-05:00

It was nice knowing you, Last Defender. Or rather, Immortal Defender.

I'm actually completely shocked the Infest debuff does not clear after leaving the dungeon. You'd think they would have learned their lesson after the Corrupted Blood Incident, but...

(I presume we're getting both a cap to Last Defender, to prevent this from ever happening again as technically this could work by luring as many adds as possible, and a fix for the debuff to be cleared after leaving Waycrest Manor)

Commento di Allenone

on 2018-09-17T13:57:26-05:00

Impressive.

Commento di Grokironhide

on 2018-09-17T13:59:14-05:00

The logical fix would the stop the debuff working outside of Waycrest, given blizzard's track record it's more likely the would nerf Last Defender than fix the route of what caused this to happen.

Commento di SuperSnivy

on 2018-09-17T14:04:48-05:00

The logical fix would the stop the debuff working outside of Waycrest, given blizzard's track record it's more likely the would nerf Last Defender than fix the route of what caused this to happen.\r\rLeaving Last Defender the way it is while fixing Infest does not remove the risk of this happening again in the future, in a different way.\r\rThe logical fix would be fixing Infest AND capping Last Defender.

Commento di Shaggypaw

on 2018-09-17T14:05:56-05:00

To be hotfixed in 4 hours I bet... nice use of the talent though.

Commento di Shaggypaw

on 2018-09-17T14:06:41-05:00

Well, thanks for getting the talent nerfed, I guess...?\r\rThey will not nerf the talent... they will just have the infested debuff fall off once you leave a dungeon.

Commento di Lucrom

on 2018-09-17T14:08:11-05:00

Tbf this is exploiting :P so ban inc, he knew he would spawn the worms and he had Last Defender on for it

Commento di Fixi

on 2018-09-17T14:10:05-05:00

And how is this not an "exploit" by the definition it is used? It is clearly not an "intentional use" of the worms to drag them from one dungeon to another raid.

Obviously they need to fix the worms, but they should also nerf this talent to avoid exploitative use in the future. This talent was also key in soloing Legion content, so I'm a little baffled why it hasn't been fixed yet.

Commento di mbboulder

on 2018-09-17T14:10:17-05:00

I can solo any raid in Legion, so smack my ass and call me Sally. Sorry, but this just proves the guy has no life.

Commento di SuperSnivy

on 2018-09-17T14:15:37-05:00

And how is this not an "exploit" by the definition it is used? It is clearly not an "intentional use" of the worms to drag them from one dungeon to another raid.\r\rIt is an exploit, yes. The question would be if this counts as abusing said exploit.

Commento di navysilan

on 2018-09-17T14:22:11-05:00

Nothing more than cheating, i'm sorry

Commento di Deserty

on 2018-09-17T14:27:34-05:00

The video is fake guys, he got loot.\ufeff

Commento di ThugNMeThePally

on 2018-09-17T14:30:49-05:00

I can solo any raid in Legion, so smack my ass and call me Sally. Sorry, but this just proves the guy has no life.\r\rReally? What class and what gear score?

Commento di dchobby

on 2018-09-17T14:30:58-05:00

If it is possible to achieve these feats in game without outside programming\/3rd party, then it is not cheating. It is however something that needs to be fixed.

Commento di keesz

on 2018-09-17T14:38:42-05:00

pls teach me master. I cant even do the full mythic Tos run with 20 ppl all lvl120

Commento di SuperSnivy

on 2018-09-17T14:39:32-05:00

If it is possible to achieve these feats in game without outside programming\/3rd party, then it is not cheating. It is however something that needs to be fixed.\r\rThat's not how it works. If you abuse something that is not intended nor accepted by the developer, then it is cheating.

Commento di Willblade

on 2018-09-17T14:56:40-05:00

"Creative use of game mechanics". This is a very soft way to say it's clearly a bug exploit